About Ascend

Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age. Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, robust talent acquisition, best-of-breed technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount today's industry challenges and reach their full potential. Founded in January 2023, the company attained revenues sufficient to qualify it as a Top 100 U.S. accounting firm within six months of operation. For more information, visit ascendtogether.com.

The Role

We are currently hiring for a Marketing/Business Development Lead that is responsible for simultaneously building our brand for both potential clients and employees.

What You'll Do:

Sales Strategy and Operations

• Define sales strategy in partnership with the Chief Growth Officer, while identifying opportunities for improvement in the sales process
• Partner closely with the Client Retention Specialist for sales hand-off and identification of cross-selling opportunities
• Facilitate and organize sales trainings to improve conversion
  
  

Client and Candidate Marketing

• Develop marketing collateral to support the sales and recruiting process, creating engaging content to improve brand awareness
• Monitor and analyze marketing performance metrics to optimize strategies and budget
• Develop strategy for charitable programs
  
  

Data Management and Analytics

• Develop reports and dashboards to provide insight into sales and marketing performance
• Maintain accurate records of sales activities, leads, opportunities and customer information in the CRM
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years' experience in a related field
• Proven communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams
• Experience with Salesforce and other sales and marketing tools
  
  

The annual base salary range for this role is $80,000-130,000. Actual compensation may vary based on various factors, including experience, education and/or skill level.